This study of State public welfare legislation in the United States presents the basic laws which provide the foundation for public welfare programs of the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, with particular emphasis on those...

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation--United States; Civil rights--United States; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

The wartime involuntary evacuation from their homes of over 100,000 persons of a minority group, citizens as well as aliens, was without historical precedent. The decision to impose limited detention upon the evacuees in the relocation centers...

This volume is a comprehensive look at the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from West Coast areas, carried out by the United States Army in the spring of 1942. Considerations that led to the evacuation and the mechanics of the evacuation...